One thing that I didn’t mention earlier about my first MRI scan was my weird anxiety over the ear protection. Since I was already lying face down with my arms above my head, it didn’t occur to me – until it was too late – to t...
Yesterday I had my first ever wig fitting session. To be honest, it all felt pretty unreal to me. I am still going through the motions of another person’s life. (A person I don’t even know yet.) The experience was another small but signif...
For me, one difficult aspect of the MRI scan experience was the struggle to keep both my body and my mind ‘perfectly, perfectly still’ for the images. If I am honest, it was barely tolerable. One twitch too many and the messed up scans wo...
Yesterday I remembered that Bette Midler once said: “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world”. I loved the sound of that advice! It was (dauntingly) ambitious yet still affordable and conveniently well-timed for my next...
Yesterday was yet another new experience: buying a non-underwired bra. This was actually a milestone (for me) because I had needed to overcome decades of resistance to the idea first. So I went off to M&S, where a suitable bra was pointed out to ...
